The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...

She says the statue, which is made of white marble and small enough to fit in someone’s hand ... According to lore, she took ...

An ancient marble bust has been recovered from the depths of Italy's Lake. It is linked to a ship commissioned by Roman ...

A monumental building with lion sculptures carved from the same marble that was used to build ... It is believed Rhypes was destroyed by the Roman emperor Augustus in the 1st-century C.E. with ...

Ovid’s playful poetry made him a favorite among Rome’s elite, but angered Emperor Augustus. Just as he was producing his finest work, Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) was exiled to the darkest corner of ...

Our head comes from this time, a year or two after Augustus became emperor. It was once part of a full-length statue that showed him as a warrior, slightly larger than life-sized. It's broken off ...

But Augustus died, and within decades the situation was very different. In 39 AD, when Caligula was emperor, religious intolerance erupted in Alexandria. Non-Jews had placed statues of human gods ...